Privacy Policy
Last updated 15 August 2026
ChatMD Studio has no accounts, no telemetry and no analytics. Your notes stay on your computer.
What is collected
Nothing is collected about you or your use of the app. There is no account to create, no usage reporting, no crash reporting and no advertising identifier.
Your notes
The app reads and writes the folder you point it at, on your own machine. Notes are never uploaded, copied to a server, or transmitted anywhere. Converting a file — a PDF to Markdown, a note to Word, PDF or an e-book — happens entirely on your computer and works with the network switched off.
What is stored locally
Preferences only, on your own machine: your theme and layout, which folder was last open, recently opened files, which AI tool you chose and where it is installed, and a few timestamps so scheduled maintenance does not repeat itself. None of it is transmitted anywhere, and it is removed when the app is uninstalled.
When the app uses the network
Only when you ask it to:
- Clipping a web page fetches the address you give it.
- Ask and Teach run through an AI tool already installed on your computer, under your own account. ChatMD Studio holds no API keys and sends nothing to an AI provider itself; whatever that tool does with your text is governed by its own privacy policy.
- Setting up Ollama, if you choose to, installs it through winget — the package manager already built into Windows — and downloading a model fetches it from Ollama's own servers. Those are large downloads and the app tells you the size before starting. Nothing of yours is sent in either case.
The app does not check for updates and has no updater. Updates are delivered by the Microsoft Store.
This website
The pages you are reading are separate from the app, and the app sends nothing to them. The site has no analytics, no advertising and no tracking cookies.
The message form on the Support page is the one place anything is collected, and only if you choose to use it. Nobody has to. If you send a message, what is kept is what you typed, the category you picked, the app version if you filled it in, and your email address only if you chose to give one — it is optional, and leaving it blank sends the message anonymously.
Two things are recorded that you did not type. Your country, as the network reports it, and a one-way hash of your IP address — not the address itself, which is never written down. The hash exists to stop one person flooding the form, and it cannot be turned back into an address.
Messages go to a private queue that only the developer reads. They are not published, not passed to anyone else, and no automated reply is sent to you. The only email the form sends is a notification to the developer's own address, which is fixed — nothing you type can change who it reaches, so the form cannot be used to send mail to anybody else. If you gave an address, it is included so a reply is possible. The anti-spam check is Cloudflare Turnstile, which is not an advertising product and does not track you across sites.
Ask for a message to be deleted and it will be, if you gave an address to identify it by.
Who your information is shared with
Nobody. There is no third party that receives data from this app. The only services it ever contacts are ones you point it at yourself — a web page you ask it to clip, an AI tool running under your own account, and the Windows package manager if you ask it to install Ollama.
Your control over it
Your notes are ordinary files in a folder you chose: you can read, move, back up or delete them with any tool, and the app has no copy of them anywhere else. Preferences can be cleared by uninstalling. Because nothing is collected, there is no account to close and no data to request or export — you already have all of it.
Security
Your notes are stored as plain files with the permissions your operating system gives them, and are not transmitted, so there is nothing in transit to protect. Requests the app makes at your instruction use HTTPS.
Children
The app is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
Questions about privacy can be raised through the Get Help page inside the app, or through the message form at chatmdstudio.com/support without installing anything.
ChatMD Studio · everything runs on your own machine.